Horace Mann was an educational reformer who lived in the US in the 19th century. He was a first to advocate a system of a public schools and public education as he believed that everyone had a right to education and that it should be free, democratic and have a professionally trained educators who would provide a quality education.
The answer is A, Sam Houston used military forced to stop Texans' attempts at joining the confederacy.
The answer is C.
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Because of it’s Confucian cultural influence